The total supply is still very low compared to most other coins so there is much potential for growth but it depends on many things to fall into place.
All the airdropped genesis accounts will continue mining for decades but inflation is IMO limited compared to some other Alts (e.g. Timereum as good example).
Current trade levels are too low to let MNE resurrect since the supply of coins keep the price low with limited demand. If demand increases the supply of coins will come from current investors and they will try to lift the price up.  This is not a scam coin but you can argue about the level of professionalism to manage its awareness on a continuous base. All MNE needs is ongoing awareness to keep trading levels high, potentially bigger exchanges to attract more liquidity and a more active communicating dev who elaborates more about the stuff he is working on to keep the community reassured that long term hold is a good investment.

Don't get me wrong, I am also frustrated that so many potential gets lost due to long periods of seemingly inactivity of Dev but it can easily turnaround into a positive thing once he gets his act together and takes care of both the ATL as BTL elements of managing his enterprise.

Just wait until the details of the swap are more clear before commenting on it based on pure speculation. It might be very innovative and never tried before so that must be worth something right? Maybe in a while we look back to this moment and feel happy that we kept believing in it during these barren ages